This is the code for the methods associated with the article McDougal RA, Dalal I, Morse TM, Shepherd GM (2018) Automated metadata suggestion during repository submission, Neuroinfomatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-018-9403-z This python computer code was contributed by R McDougal. Please see the enclosed license. The code use regular expression patterns to identify candidate keywords for models in ModelDB. Please direct any questions to robert dot mcdougal at yale dot edu.